Hey
[Music]
fifty years ago you couldn’t hardly walk
through this place it was wall-to-wall
brush there wasn’t any grass and wasn’t
any water nobody wanted
[Applause]
oh he didn’t find his dog in the
United States of America hey I’m Texas –
well I was born in Ohio born into
poverty to be honest about it
he lived out in the country
amongst the Amish people so I really got
my life example set for me by my own
mother that’s where my love of the
natural world came from I never
inherited a nickel that I inherited a
love the natural world in a respect
respect for it
when I get out of the University I took
a job I sold vacuum cleaners or guitar I
went into the fast food business I’ve
teamed up with the young man bill church
and it was church’s fried chicken and we
built that company up to over 1,600
stores and we sold and with that capital
I was able to come here and begin my
work on cela member dorrance preserve my
objective was to take the worst piece of
land I could possibly find in the hill
country of Texas and begin a process of
restoration that would change it back to
be one of the best and that has happened
right here
by habitat restoration by working with
Mother Nature and set it against her and
that’s what we’re all about
46 years ago not a drop of water seven
water wells were drilled 500 foot deep
not a one produced any water the top 125
foot of these hills looks like this said
words limestone when the driller drilled
all goes well for me he said Bamberger
when one place up here on the top my bit
dropped 40 foot
he said you got a cavern under there’s
like an auditorium the only thing about
it was 46 years ago it had no water in
it it was dry it was dry because the
water that was coming in was running off
as opposed to sinking him when I came
here all of the little holes and all of
that limestone or just as dry as one of
holding in my hand now what happened
we replaced that condition with this
condition two and a half years after we
began the first spring came to life
as we continued on another spring showed
up we got up to where we have a level
we’re in rider contract came out of all
of that holes in that perched aquifer
like that that’s where it come from it
was stored in the earth and all because
of one thing this one and I’m telling
you I’m going to show you the greatest
conservation tool ever made and
everything I talked about could not have
happened without grass the hill country
is discovered with woody species
primarily it’s cedar we took out a great
portion of it here on the ranch we were
discovered with it we had no grass when
we took out the cedar and spread native
grass seeds and it began to grow
rainfall then percolated into the earth
because of the root system of grass
going down water percolates and it fills
up your aquifer until the aquifer is
full and when it’s full it has to come
out somewhere and they call that a
spring that spring supplied water for
all the nature critters plus from all
the families that live here and even
send water downstream to the city of
Austin
what is it cost our governments and
governments all around the world they’re
spending millions and millions of
dollars doing all kind of thing dams and
reservoirs and pipelines and all of this
can be done by you and I we don’t have
to have government the can expect
government to do it all anyway but if we
do have some contravention to ethics the
results from my modeling now do we see
that kind of erosion year I’m telling
you truthfully I’ve seen this property
and the experiences that people have
here change lives
what is Oh beautiful thank you so much
what the sealer mean when I was younger
I discovered in the Psalms the word
Selah it means to stop to pause to look
around you and reflect on everything you
see
you
[Music]
to me that’s like Thoreau was to Walden
Pond gives us a chance to say what’s my
duty as a Stewart of this ranch land and
I believe it’s to take care of it and to
share it and if you don’t share what you
have you’re going to live a lonely life
[Music]
that is a necessary ingredient for every
human being that we need to catch up and
live amongst mother nature and learn to
appreciate her for what she really is
I’ve given this land to a foundation it
will go on in perpetuity it’ll never be
any different than you see it today when
I leave this world that’s what I want as
part of my legacy
[Music]
[Music]
you
you
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
fifty years ago you couldn’t hardly walk
through this place it was wall-to-wall
brush there wasn’t any grass and wasn’t
any water nobody wanted
[Applause]
oh he didn’t find his dog in the
United States of America hey I’m Texas –
well I was born in Ohio born into
poverty to be honest about it
he lived out in the country
amongst the Amish people so I really got
my life example set for me by my own
mother that’s where my love of the
natural world came from I never
inherited a nickel that I inherited a
love the natural world in a respect
respect for it
when I get out of the University I took
a job I sold vacuum cleaners or guitar I
went into the fast food business I’ve
teamed up with the young man bill church
and it was church’s fried chicken and we
built that company up to over 1,600
stores and we sold and with that capital
I was able to come here and begin my
work on cela member dorrance preserve my
objective was to take the worst piece of
land I could possibly find in the hill
country of Texas and begin a process of
restoration that would change it back to
be one of the best and that has happened
right here
by habitat restoration by working with
Mother Nature and set it against her and
that’s what we’re all about
46 years ago not a drop of water seven
water wells were drilled 500 foot deep
not a one produced any water the top 125
foot of these hills looks like this said
words limestone when the driller drilled
all goes well for me he said Bamberger
when one place up here on the top my bit
dropped 40 foot
he said you got a cavern under there’s
like an auditorium the only thing about
it was 46 years ago it had no water in
it it was dry it was dry because the
water that was coming in was running off
as opposed to sinking him when I came
here all of the little holes and all of
that limestone or just as dry as one of
holding in my hand now what happened
we replaced that condition with this
condition two and a half years after we
began the first spring came to life
as we continued on another spring showed
up we got up to where we have a level
we’re in rider contract came out of all
of that holes in that perched aquifer
like that that’s where it come from it
was stored in the earth and all because
of one thing this one and I’m telling
you I’m going to show you the greatest
conservation tool ever made and
everything I talked about could not have
happened without grass the hill country
is discovered with woody species
primarily it’s cedar we took out a great
portion of it here on the ranch we were
discovered with it we had no grass when
we took out the cedar and spread native
grass seeds and it began to grow
rainfall then percolated into the earth
because of the root system of grass
going down water percolates and it fills
up your aquifer until the aquifer is
full and when it’s full it has to come
out somewhere and they call that a
spring that spring supplied water for
all the nature critters plus from all
the families that live here and even
send water downstream to the city of
Austin
what is it cost our governments and
governments all around the world they’re
spending millions and millions of
dollars doing all kind of thing dams and
reservoirs and pipelines and all of this
can be done by you and I we don’t have
to have government the can expect
government to do it all anyway but if we
do have some contravention to ethics the
results from my modeling now do we see
that kind of erosion year I’m telling
you truthfully I’ve seen this property
and the experiences that people have
here change lives
what is Oh beautiful thank you so much
what the sealer mean when I was younger
I discovered in the Psalms the word
Selah it means to stop to pause to look
around you and reflect on everything you
see
you
[Music]
to me that’s like Thoreau was to Walden
Pond gives us a chance to say what’s my
duty as a Stewart of this ranch land and
I believe it’s to take care of it and to
share it and if you don’t share what you
have you’re going to live a lonely life
[Music]
that is a necessary ingredient for every
human being that we need to catch up and
live amongst mother nature and learn to
appreciate her for what she really is
I’ve given this land to a foundation it
will go on in perpetuity it’ll never be
any different than you see it today when
I leave this world that’s what I want as
part of my legacy
[Music]
[Music]
you
you
[Music]
[Music]
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